"The Citadel (novel) The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking in its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later. In the United States, it won the National Book Award for 1937 novels, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. For his fifth book, Dr. Cronin drew on his experiences practising medicine in the coal mining communities of the South Wales Valleys, as he had for ""The Stars Look Down"""
"integrity with social obligations, helped to incite the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom by exposing the inequity and incompetence of medical practice at the time. In the novel Cronin advocated a free public health service in order to defeat the wiles of those doctors who ""raised guinea-snatching and the bamboozling of patients to an art form."" Dr Cronin and Aneurin Bevan had both worked at the Tredegar Cottage Hospital in Wales, which served as one of the bases for the NHS. The author quickly made enemies in the medical profession, and there was a"
"Grand Canary (novel) Grand Canary is the third novel by British author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1933. Set in Spain, the novel tells the story of Dr. Harvey Leith, an English physician who is wrongfully blamed for the deaths of three patients and leaves his country in disgrace, ultimately finding redemption when thrust into the middle of a yellow fever epidemic in the Canary Islands. Lady Mary Fielding, who is to join her husband in the Canaries, and Dr. Leith, who plans to drown his sorrows in drink, engage in a romance on the steamship en route to"
"Nerys Hughes. In 1982, a televised version of the A.J. Cronin novel, ""The Citadel"", was filmed in Tredegar, starring Ben Cross. The series was based partly on Cronin's experiences as a doctor in the town, where he had worked for the Tredegar Medical Aid Society in the early 1920s. This society contributed the model which established the British National Health Service. Aneurin Bevan who launched the Health Service in 1948 said """"All I am doing is extending to the entire population of Britain the benefits we had in Tredegar for a generation or more. We are going to 'Tredegarise' you"""
"concerted effort by one group of specialists to get ""The Citadel"" banned. Cronin's novel, which was the highest-selling book ever published by Victor Gollancz, informed the public about corruption within the medical system, planting a seed that eventually led to reform. Not only were the author's pioneering ideas instrumental in the creation of the NHS, but the historian Raphael Samuel asserted in 1995 that the popularity of Cronin's novels played a substantial role in the Labour Party's landslide victory in 1945. By contrast, according to one of Cronin's biographers, Alan Davies, the book's reception was mixed. A few of the"
"Health. Aneurin Bevan, who introduced the National Health Service in 1948, was a member of the Cottage Hospital Management Committee around 1928 and was chairman in 1929/30. The hospital now has an extension known as the Aneurin Bevan Medical Centre, and a portrait of Bevan hangs in the hospital's foyer. A.J. Cronin, whose 1937 novel, ""The Citadel"", brought much attention to Tredegar's grassroots healthcare system, worked as a doctor at the Cottage Hospital during the early 1920s. The general hospital closed after the new Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan opened in Ebbw Vale in October 2010. Tredegar General Hospital Tredegar General Hospital"
"success, launched Cronin's career as a prolific author, and he never returned to practising medicine. Many of Cronin's books were bestsellers in their day and have been translated into many languages. Some of his stories draw on his medical career, dramatically mixing realism, romance and social criticism. Cronin's works examine moral conflicts between the individual and society, as his idealistic heroes pursue justice for the common man. One of his early novels, ""The Stars Look Down"" (1935), chronicles transgressions in a mining community in Northeast England and an ambitious miner's rise to be a Member of Parliament. A prodigiously fast"
"of England, is ""The Stars Look Down"". Both these novels have been adapted as films, as have ""Hatter's Castle"", ""The Keys of the Kingdom"" and ""The Green Years"". Cronin's novel ""Country Doctor"" was adapted as a long-running BBC radio and TV series ""Dr. Finlay's Casebook"", revived many years later. Cronin was born in Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, the only child of a Presbyterian mother, Jessie Cronin (née Montgomerie), and a Catholic father, Patrick Cronin. Cronin often wrote of young men from similarly mixed backgrounds. His paternal grandparents had emigrated from County Armagh, Ireland, and become glass and china merchants in Alexandria."
"published in 1937, had fomented extensive debate about the severe inadequacies of healthcare. The author's innovative ideas were not only essential to the conception of the NHS, but in fact, his best-selling novels are said to have greatly contributed to the Labour Party's victory in 1945. A national health service was one of the fundamental assumptions in the Beveridge Report. The Emergency Hospital Service established in 1939 gave a taste of what a National Health Service might look like. Healthcare prior to the war had been an unsatisfactory mix of private, municipal and charity schemes. Bevan decided that the way"
"their destination. She eventually comes down with the deadly fever after following the doctor into the heart of the fever area as he tends to the sick. Dr. Leith returns to England a hero, and on his arrival, learns that Lady Fielding, who was saved by the doctor's newly discovered serum, has left her husband and is coming to join him. A Fox film of the novel, released in 1934, was produced by Jesse L. Lasky and directed by Irving Cummings. Grand Canary (novel) Grand Canary is the third novel by British author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1933."
"The Keys of the Kingdom The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1941 novel by A. J. Cronin. Spanning six decades, it tells the story of Father Francis Chisholm, an unconventional Scottish Catholic priest who struggles to establish a mission in China. Beset by tragedy in his youth, as a missionary Chisholm endures many years of hardship, punctuated by famine, plague and war in the Chinese province to which he is assigned. Through a life guided by compassion and tolerance, Chisholm earns the respect of the Chinese—and of fellow clergy who would mistrust him—with his kindly, high-minded and courageous ways."
"and Ann Harding. It was also adapted on 21 August 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater with Gregory Peck reprising his leading role. Cronin, A. J. ""The Keys of the Kingdom"". Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1941. The Keys of the Kingdom The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1941 novel by A. J. Cronin. Spanning six decades, it tells the story of Father Francis Chisholm, an unconventional Scottish Catholic priest who struggles to establish a mission in China. Beset by tragedy in his youth, as a missionary Chisholm endures many years of hardship, punctuated by famine, plague and war"
"uncritically) on the Tredegar Medical Aid Society for which Cronin worked for a time in the 1920s, and which in due course became the inspiration for the National Health Service as established under Aneurin Bevan. The novel was made into a 1938 film with Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson and Rex Harrison, and television versions include one American (1960), two British (1960 & 1983), and two Italian (1964 & 2003) adaptations of the novel. There are also three film adaptations of the novel in Indian languages: ""Tere Mere Sapne"" (1971) in Hindi, ""Jiban Saikate"" (1972) in Bengali and ""Madhura"
"that her rival has won it and fearing her father, she sends Mary out to the chemist on the pretext of getting some medicine, then dresses up and hangs herself. The story concludes with Dr. Renwick, who has been seeing Mary, taking her away with him to marry her. Hatter's Castle Hatter's Castle (1931) is the first novel of author A. J. Cronin. The story is set in 1879, in the fictional town of Levenford, on the Firth of Clyde. The plot revolves around many characters and has many subplots, all of which relate to the life of the hatter,"
"Kaleidoscope in ""K"" ""Kaleidoscope in ""K"""" is a novella by author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1933 in ""Cosmopolitan"" magazine. All of the action unfolds within twelve hours in a London hospital, and the story centers around the conflict between a young surgeon, Dr. Barclay, and the hospital chief, Dr. Selby. A subplot is the rivalry between Barclay and a playboy physician, Dr. Preston, as they vie for the attentions of Miss Fanshawe, an attractive nurse. The story comes to a tense climax as Barclay prepares for a delicate brain operation, a revolutionary procedure to which Selby is opposed."
"two years earlier. Specifically, he had researched and reported on the correlation between coal dust inhalation and lung disease in the town of Tredegar. He had also worked as a doctor for the Tredegar Medical Aid Society at the Cottage Hospital, which served as the model for the National Health Service. Cronin once stated in an interview, ""I have written in ""The Citadel"" all I feel about the medical profession, its injustices, its hide-bound unscientific stubbornness, its humbug ... The horrors and inequities detailed in the story I have personally witnessed. This is not an attack against individuals, but against"
"Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999). All were born within a fifteen-year period and, although they cannot be described as members of a single school, they all pursued an exploration of identity, rejecting nostalgia and parochialism and engaging with social and political issues. Physician A. J. Cronin is now often seen as sentimental, but his early work, particularly his first novel ""Hatter's Castle"" (1931) and his most successful ""The Citadel"" (1937) were a deliberate reaction against the Kailyard tradition, exposing the hardships and vicissitudes of the lives of ordinary people, He was the most translated Scottish author in the twentieth century. George Blake"
"into a film, ""Vigil in the Night"" (1940). Vigil in the Night (novella) Vigil in the Night is a serial novella by A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1939 in ""Good Housekeeping"" magazine. It tells the tale of two nurses, Anne Lee, who devoted herself to serving others, and of her younger sister, Lucy Lee, who tried to get everything in life for herself. When Lucy’s negligence causes the death of a young patient, Anne takes the blame to protect her sister, an act that threatens to destroy the bright career that lies before her. The story was printed in"
"was based on Cronin's novel. At present only three documentary sources about Conway are known to exist. The earliest source is an anonymous obituary of him, 'A romantic career Death of Mr Walter Conway, Tredegar Workhouse Boy who became Chairman of Guardians Unique Public Service', which was published in the Saturday, February 18 1933 edition of the 'Merthyr Express'. The next source are brief anecdotes about Conway by Harold Finch, MP. in his 1972 'Memoirs of a Bedwellty MP', published by the Starling Press, Risca, Newport. The other source is Chapter Three of 'The health of a nation The history"
"Adventures in Two Worlds Adventures in Two Worlds is the 1952 autobiography of Dr. A. J. Cronin, in which he relates, with much humour, the exciting events of his dual career as a medical doctor and a novelist. From the flye leaf of 'Beyond This Place' (Angus and Robertson Sydney - London): Adventures in Two Worlds: Dr Cronin's published novels make up an imposing list of successes. This book, his first non-fiction work, which relates moving and dramatic episodes from his dual career as doctor and novelist will certainly be as widely ready and applauded as his preceding publications. Dr"
"what a future integrated medical care service, in the UK, could look like. With the publication of the Beveridge Report in November 1942, that posited the foundation of a Welfare state as well as an integrated medical care service in the form of a National Health Service, that was subsequently established in 1948, it enabled national policy directives to be applied to the whole service. The Platt Report was one of those directives, designed in a manner, to improve the delivery of care. With the introduction of Penicillin into the majority of the medical community by the 1940s, the major"
"to researching it: it turns out to be brucellosis. Dr. Shannon contracts a nervous breakdown when he completes the project only to find that someone else has anticipated his results, and is nursed by and marries Jean. Shannon's Way Shannon's Way is a 1948 novel by Scots author, A. J. Cronin. It continues the story of Robert Shannon from Cronin's previous novel, ""The Green Years"" (1944). Robert trains to be a doctor at the fictional Levenford Infirmary (Levenford is loosely based on Dumbarton), and falls in love with Jean Law, a young medical student belonging to the Plymouth Brethren who"
"Shannon's Way Shannon's Way is a 1948 novel by Scots author, A. J. Cronin. It continues the story of Robert Shannon from Cronin's previous novel, ""The Green Years"" (1944). Robert trains to be a doctor at the fictional Levenford Infirmary (Levenford is loosely based on Dumbarton), and falls in love with Jean Law, a young medical student belonging to the Plymouth Brethren who rejects him when she discovers that he has deceived her about his history and religion (he is a Roman Catholic). He develops an interest in a disease contracted from infected cows' milk, and devotes his spare time"
"Vigil in the Night (novella) Vigil in the Night is a serial novella by A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1939 in ""Good Housekeeping"" magazine. It tells the tale of two nurses, Anne Lee, who devoted herself to serving others, and of her younger sister, Lucy Lee, who tried to get everything in life for herself. When Lucy’s negligence causes the death of a young patient, Anne takes the blame to protect her sister, an act that threatens to destroy the bright career that lies before her. The story was printed in book form by various publishers and was adapted"
"Vincent Cronin Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL (24 May 1924 – 25 January 2011) was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance. Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire to Scottish doctor and novelist, A. J. Cronin, and May Gibson, but moved to London at the age of two. He was educated at Ampleforth College, Harvard University, the Sorbonne, and Trinity College, Oxford, from which he graduated with honours in 1947, earning a degree"
"that they felt overwhelmed by the volume and nature of the demands currently placed on them. The number of alerts and amount of other information from multiple organisations, for example about different targets and initiatives, can be unmanageable.” There are roughly 2m patient safety incidents every year and 21,500 of them are serious. Problems have included swabs being left in a patient's body and surgeons operating on the wrong part of the patient's body. Overworked NHS staff do not have time to do sufficient education and training to update themselves on patient safety. A. J. Cronin's controversial novel ""The Citadel"","
"Hatter's Castle Hatter's Castle (1931) is the first novel of author A. J. Cronin. The story is set in 1879, in the fictional town of Levenford, on the Firth of Clyde. The plot revolves around many characters and has many subplots, all of which relate to the life of the hatter, James Brodie, whose narcissism and cruelty gradually destroy his family and life. The book was made into a successful film in 1942 starring Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, and James Mason. The main characters are James Brodie (the hatter and tyrannical patriarch of the Brodie family), Mary Brodie (James' elder"
"Cronin has recorded not only the achievements of his early life but also the struggles and setbacks that gave him such a sympathetic understanding of the sufferings of others. Adventures in Two Worlds Adventures in Two Worlds is the 1952 autobiography of Dr. A. J. Cronin, in which he relates, with much humour, the exciting events of his dual career as a medical doctor and a novelist. From the flye leaf of 'Beyond This Place' (Angus and Robertson Sydney - London): Adventures in Two Worlds: Dr Cronin's published novels make up an imposing list of successes. This book, his first"
"Dr. Finlay Dr. Finlay is a fictional character, the hero of a series of stories by Scottish author A. J. Cronin. First appearing in Cronin's novella entitled ""Country Doctor"" and in several subsequent short stories published in ""Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan"" magazine from 1935 through 1939, Dr. Finlay Hylsop is a general physician beginning his practice in the fictional Scottish town of Levenford. One of the later short stories would take him to the lochside village of Tannochbrae. In these stories, he was charming and became well-acquainted with his patients over many years. It was thus his trademark to"
"of the detailed and gripping portrayal of experimental laboratory research as a practice, a profession, an ideology, a worldview, a “prominent strand in modern culture, a way of life”, ""Arrowsmith"" is generally acknowledged as a classic 'science novel', focusing on moral dilemmas bio-medical researchers may encounter ""Arrowsmith"" has been compared with ""The Citadel"" by A. J. Cronin (first published after ""Arrowsmith"" in 1937), which also deals with the life experiences of a young idealistic doctor who tries to challenge and improve the existing system of medical practice. De Kruif drew inspiration for locations and characters in ""Arrowsmith"" from specific sources."
"before graduating from medical school. After the war he trained at various hospitals, including Bellahouston and Lightburn Hospitals in Glasgow, and the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. He undertook general practice in a small village on the Clyde, Garelochhead, as well as in Tredegar, a mining town in South Wales. In 1924 he was appointed Medical Inspector of Mines for Great Britain, and his survey of medical regulations in collieries, and his reports on the correlation between coal dust inhalation and pulmonary disease, were published over the next few years. Cronin drew on his medical experience and his research on the"
"The Judas Tree The Judas Tree is a 1961 novel by A. J. Cronin. It is considered one of the author's finest works and demonstrated a keen understanding of sin. Cronin described the book as ""a complete dissection of a supreme egoist - a well-intentioned man who, through psychological and sociological influences, develops into a weak and self-indulgent heel who brings disaster on three different women and is himself destroyed by the fourth."" The book begins with the story of David Moray, his early career as an ambitious young doctor away on business. He has promised to return to marry"
"warm human understanding that has characterized A. J. Cronin's work from 'Hatter's Castle' onwards. To read it is an experience that will be long remembered.' Beyond This Place Beyond This Place is a novel by Scottish author A. J. Cronin first published in 1950. The first Edition for Australia and New Zealand was in 1953. A serial version appeared in Collier's under the title of ""To Live Again"". It has been adapted for both film and television. The British film version (1959) was directed by Jack Cardiff and featured Van Johnson and Vera Miles. A television adaptation was broadcast on"